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THE  FOUNDERS 


BISHOP  POLK 


THE 

FOUNDERS 


BISHOP  ELLIOTT 


SEWANEE:  PAST  &  PRESENT 


By  Sarah  Barnwell  Elliott 


THE  RT.  REV.  C.  T.  QUINTARD,  M.D.,  S.T.D. 
First  Vice-Chancellor ,  and  Second  Founder 
of  the  University . 


SEWANEE:  PAST  &  PRESENT 

HE  story  of  the  founding  of  Sewanee 
by  Bishop  Polk  of  Louisiana,  Bishop 
Elliott  of  Georgia  and  Bishop  Otey 
of  Tennessee,  has  been  told  and  re¬ 
told  ;  the  wholesomeness  of  Sewanee 
morally,  mentally,  physically,  has 
been  proved  ;  the  usefulness  of  Sewanee  is  manifest 
in  that  through  the  dreadful  years  of  Recon¬ 
struction,  through  the  great  financial  depression 
that  for  so  long  benumbed  the  South,  Sewanee  has 
prospered.  What  is  being  now  looked  to  and  pre¬ 
pared  for,  is  the  further  growth  of  Sewanee.  And 
one  of  the  things  that  the  public  must  understand  is, 
that  Sewanee  is  a  growth,  a  growth  and  not  a  creation  ; 
also,  that  growth — healthy  growth — is  slow.  Another 
point  that  must  be  considered  is,  that  bigness  is  not 
greatness.  David  was  greater  than  Goliath ;  the 
smallest  man  than  the  largest  beast ;  the  tiniest  spark 
of  spirit  than  the  most  enormous  bulk  of  matter  that 
ever  was  piled. 


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Our  charter  reads — ‘'The  University  of  the  South 
at  Sewanee.”  Incidentally,  this  name,  "University 
of  the  South,”  was  not  given  in  a  spirit  of  sectional¬ 
ism,  but  because  it  could  not  be  the  University  of 
any  State ;  it  was  not  to  be  the  gift  of  any  one  man  ; 
it  was  not  meant  for  any  one  body  of  Christians ;  it 
was  planned  to  meet  the  needs  of  the  South  and  of 
the  Southern  student  —  of  all  Southern  students  — 
hence  the  name  "University  of  the  South."  The 
founders  laid  their  plans  on  the  broadest  possible  lines; 
in  ideals,  they  planned  for  all  time ;  in  material  things, 
they  planned  in  lines  with  the  name  chosen — they 
planned  for  the  South  as  they  knew  it.  One  of  the 
problems  of  the  Southern  college  man  in  their  day 
was  the  summer  vacation.  The  sons  of  the  Southern 
Planter  could  not  return  to  the  plantation  home  in 
summer,  and  the  boy  was  thus  deprived  absolutely  of 
home  life;  hence  the  Founders  decided  that  "The 
University  of  the  South”  for  the  South,  must  have  a 
winter  holiday  —  Christmas  on  the  old  Plantation! 
A  picture  framed  now  in  a  halo  of  blood  and  tears. 

For  a  long  time  the  winter  holiday  has  proved 
itself  an  admirable  thing  for  the  Southern  student; 
but  now  the  day  seems  to  have  come  when  the  winter 
vacation  must  be  given  up.  In  all  the  slow-moving 
years  since  the  war  between  the  States,  the  life  of  the 
South  has  been  changing.  There  are  now,  in  the  old 
sense,  no  plantations  left,  or  so  few  that  they  are 
visited  as  sights — as  relics  of  a  civilization  that  has 
vanished.  The  plantations  of  to-day  are,  more  or 


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less,  let  in  small  sections  to  renters ;  and,  in  the  last 
twenty  years,  homes  —  greatly  for  safety  —  have  been 
shifted  to  towns  and  cities.  Furthermore,  the  sources 
of  malaria  and  of  yellow  fever  have  been  discovered 
and  are  being  destroyed,  and  life  in  the  South  in  sum¬ 
mer,  while  more  or  less  trying,  is  not  now  the  menace 
that  it  was  in  the  days  of  the  Founders. 

The  planters  of  the  old  regime  had  for  their  child¬ 
ren  tutors  and  governesses ;  to-day,  the  home  having 
been  moved  into  towns  and  cities,  the  secondary 
schools  have  come  to  the  front.  These  schools  close 
in  June,  and  the  graduates  of  these  schools  desiring 
to  come  to  Sewanee,  had  to  come  immediately, 
come  without  one  hour’s  rest.  Plantations  having 
been  abandoned  as  homes,  city  houses,  hotels,  apart¬ 
ments,  afford  little  room  for  a  boy  for  the  whole 
winter.  All  these  considerations  and  many  others  as 
practical,  have  decided  those  who  guide,  in  deepest 
love,  the  course  of  Sewanee’s  fortunes  to  give  up  the 
winter  holiday ;  to  change  this  provision  of  the 
Founders,  who  were  themselves  too  wise  not  to  have 
changed  with  changing  time. 

Of  the  growth  and  progress  of  Sewanee  there  can 
be  no  question.  In  an  address  made  in  June,  1907, 
by  Mr.  Eugene  Hinton,  Chairman  of  the  Southeastern 
Freight  Association,  and  an  Alumnus  of  Sewanee,  we 
read — “My  memory  goes  back  to  1870  and  I  recall 
that  many  of  the  students  lived  then  in  hurriedly- 
constructed  cabins  of  unplaned  boards,  not  unlike 
fishermen’s  shacks, — and  I  may  add  that  I  have  never 


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before  nor  since  seen  a  happier  lot  of  boys.  I 
come  back  to-day  to  these  cherished  haunts 
after  thirty-six  years  of  absence,  and  the  mag¬ 
nificent  contrast  is  so  bewildering  that  I  have 
not  yet  fully  grasped  its  immensity.  Our  holy 
Founders  writing  in  1859  of  their  plans  for  the  Uni¬ 
versity  said — ‘An  oak  that  is  to  spread  abroad  its 
branches  in  greatness  and  in  power,  that  is  to  stand 
the  storms  of  centuries,  does  not  grow  up  in  a  day.’ 
The  splendid  achievements  of  the  last  forty  years,  and 
the  dazzling  panorama  presented  to  our  vision  to-day, 
almost  belie  those  words.” 

Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner,  coming  to  Sewanee, 
was  asked  —  “What  made  you  come?  ”  He  answered 
— “Sewanee  made  me  come.”  Then  he  added — “I 
have  been  travelling  through  the  South  and  South¬ 
west,  and  whenever,  being  struck  by  the  manner  and 
bearing  of  a  young  man,  I  asked  where  the  said 
young  man  had  been  trained  —  educated;  the  answer 
was  invariably — ‘Sewanee;’  and  so  I  determined  to 
come  to  the  place  where  it  seemed  to  me  there  must 
be  some  kind  of  mill  for  the  manufacture  of  gentle¬ 
men.” 

The  late  Doctor  Morgan  Dix  of  New  York,  coming 
to  Sewanee,  asked — “How  have  you  managed  to  keep 
yourselves  so  hidden?  ”  The  reply  to  this  unexpected 
question  came  slowly,  hesitatingly,  as  if  the  one  who 
answered  had  to  think  out  the  proposition  before  he 
could  at  all  give  any  reason  for  so  strange  a  state  of 
things.  “Why,  I  suppose,”  the  professor  said,  “It  is 


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because  we  have  been  so  busy  doing  our  work,  that 
we  have  not  had  time  to  talk  about  it.” 

But,  without  noise  or  clamor,  the  Sewanee  graduate 
has  taken  an  honorable  place.  In  every  walk  of  life 
he  is  to  be  found,  and  as  a  rule,  he  is  a  successful 
man,  nearing  as  fast  as  time  permits  the  top  of  his 
profession.  There  is  one  other  point  that  must  be 
touched  on.  Much  has  been  said  as  to  the  University 
of  the  South  being  an  ecclesiastical  institution.  As 
all  know,  a  University  is  of  many  schools  ;  so  it  is  with 
Sewanee.  She  has  a  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
generally  known  as  the  Academic  Department ;  a 
Theological  Department ;  a  Law  Department;  and  a 
Medical  Department.  Since  the  meeting,  last  June, 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  a  department  for  University 
Extension  Work  has  been  added;  beginning  its 
operations  this  Summer,  ’08,  in  an  admirably  suc¬ 
cessful  Summer  School.  This  Department,  it  is  hoped, 
will  reach  all  the  centres  of  education  and  culture 
throughout  the  whole  South,  bringing  home  to  the 
people  as  never  before,  the  influence,  the  knowledge, 
and  the  value  of  Sewanee. 

There  is  also  at  Sewanee  a  preparatory  school, 
formed  on  the  plan  of  the  English  Grammar  School ; 
this  has  been  changed  as  to  its  name  and  discipline, 
but  not  as  to  its  purpose,  which  is  to  prepare  students 
to  enter  the  University.  The  name  is  now  “The  Se¬ 
wanee  Military  Academy”  and  the  discipline  is  abso¬ 
lutely  military,  being  under  the  orders  of  an  aftive 
officer  of  the  United  States  Regular  Army. 


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Of  the  University  Bishop  Otey  said — “It  is  de¬ 
signed  to  found  an  institution  on  the  most  enlarged 
and  liberal  scale,  and  last  of  all,  to  supply  convenient 
facilities  for  the  acquisition  of  theological  learning.” 

Bishop  Elliott  said — “We  have  undertaken  this 
thing  as  a  Church  because  there  is  no  other  way  of 
doing  it.  But  it  is  in  no  sense  intended  to  be  sec¬ 
tarian.  Its  curriculum  will  extend  through  every 
branch  of  learning  and  science.  .  .  its  doors  will  be 
open  to  students  of  every  name  and  sect.  .  .  its  con¬ 
duct  will  be  Catholic  in  the  very  highest  sense  of  the 
word.” 

And  so  it  has  been.  Every  creed  is  welcomed  at 
Sewanee,  where  conscious  proselyting  is  unknown. 
Rich  and  poor,  high  and  low,  “all  sorts  and 
'conditions  of  men”  fare  alike  at  Sewanee.  Those 
who  know  Sewanee  can  say  with  truth,  and  have 
said  many,  many  times,  that  Sewanee  is  the  best 
environment  that  was  ever  devised  for  a  grow¬ 
ing  boy  or  for  a  young  man.  The  University 
is  centre  and  circumference;  beginning  and  end  of 
Sewanee.  The  residents  all  live  for  and  by  the  Uni¬ 
versity  ;  and  in  the  early  years  of  which  Mr.  Hinton 
speaks,  in  the  years  of  'shacks/  the  years  when  Se¬ 
wanee  was  all  Spirit  and  no  Matter,  a  stranger  looking 
about  wonderingly,  asked  a  waggoner:  “Where  is  the 
University?”  the  waggoner  answered — “We-all  is  the 
University,  every  body  is  the  University,  that’s  all  thar 
is.”  And  so  it  has  continued  down  to  this  day  of  fine 
buildings  where  there  used  to  be  'shacks/  of  streets 


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where  there  used  to  be  roads — every  living  soul,  every 
beating  heart  is  the  University.  “All  these  things/' 
material  things,  “have  been  added  unto  us,”  because 
first  there  were  the  higher  things ;  the  great  ideals, 
the  undying  love,  the  enduring,  unfailing  self-sacrifice. 

The  first  people  who  after  the  war  between  the 
States,  collected  at  Sewanee,  were  soldiers  of  the 
Confederate  Army.  Soldiers,  some  of  them  old 
army  men — West  Pointers,  with  their  wives  and 
children  :  there  were  widows  too,  come  to  educate 
their  boys,  widows  of  soldiers,  of  clergymen,  of 
Bishops.  They  had  just  come  through  the  most 
terrible  war  of  modern  times  :  they  were  accustomed 
to  suffer,  to  endure;  they  were  the  survivors  of  a 
“Lost  Cause;”  their  eyes  had  been  washed  to  clear¬ 
sightedness  with  tears ;  their  hearts  were  hungry  for 
something  for  which  they  could  work,  could  fight,  if 
need  be,  die  ;  they  were  dying  for  the  want  of  a  hope, 
and  they  found  it  in  the  University  of  the  South  ! 
Still  something  to  be  done  for  their  dear  South ! 
They  looked  out  to  the  future,  and  saw  the  vision  of 
the  things  that  now  are — “The  towered  city  set 
within  a  wood,” — and  for  this  vision  they  bore 
smilingly  the  burden  and  heat  of  the  day;  they  laid 
them  down  in  the  little  graveyard  out  yonder  on  the 
hillside  in  the  sure  knowledge  that  what  they  had 
worked,  had  lived,  had  died  for,  that  this  vision  would 
never  die !  Out  of  life  comes  life,  and  the  life  of 
Sewanee  is  the  flower,  the  fruit,  of  many  lives. 

In  1907,  fifty  years  after  the  first  meeting  of  the 


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Founders,  there  was  celebrated  at  Sewanee  the  Semi- 
Centennial,  and  there  came  together  a  great  gathering 
of  Alumni.  Men  of  the  'shacks’  and  cabins  called 
"Oxford  Row;”  men  of  the  earlier  halls  —  Otey, 
Southwing,  Waverly,  Kendall,  Fulford,  Powhatan, 
Tremlett;  later,  Palmetto,  Magnolia,  Alabama ;  latest, 
men  of  Hoffman.  Men  who  had  studied  under 
Knight,  Morris,  Shoup,  Gorgas,  Dabney,  Elliott, 
Sevier,  Harrison,  DuBose,  McCrady,  Juny,  Kirby- 
Smith,  Hodgson,  Wilmer,  Rogers,  Page,  Gailor,  Wig¬ 
gins,  Trent,  White,  Wells,  Beckwith,  Sessums,  Puckette, 
Nauts,  Hall,  McKellar,  Bain,  Seibels,  Jervey.  Men 
who  could  say — "John  Sharpe  Williams  and  I  had 
the  same  cabin,”  or  "I  was  here  when  Sessums  was 
a  little  chap ;”  or,  "Think  of  Bob  Myles  operating  on 
the  throat  of  the  Emperor  Frederick!”  or,  "And  the 
4 Cardinal’  in  New  York  in  Old  Trinity!”  "Do  you 
remember  the  day  we  dragged  Mr.  Gailor  home  in 
the  carriage  with  Manning  in  the  lead?”  or,  “Did  you 
ever  think  old  Weller’d  be  a  High-Church  Bishop?” 
or,  "Do  you  remember  how  slow  Theo.  Bratton  used 
to  dance?”  or,  "I  never  think  of  Georgie  Baxter 
being  old  enough  to  be  ex-Governor  of  anything.” 
or,  "Archie  Butt  is  to  be  Aide  to  the  President!”  or, 
"Do  you  remember  the  brass  band  when  deRosset 
was  leader,  and  Si  McBee  blew  the  big  horn?”  or, 
"We  are  turning  out  lots  of  Bishops  these  days,  hope 
we  won’t  swamp  the  Church,”  or,  "To  tell  the  truth, 
you  can’t  go  anywhere  now  without  stumping  your 
toes  against  Sewanee  men,  and  Pm  never  ashamed  of 


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them.”  And  so  they  talked  of  the  old  days  with  a 
tear  in  every  laugh.  They  sang  the  old  songs,  hunted 
up  the  old  haunts,  with  a  —  “Where’s  Johnny  B.  and 
‘Eye’  Ball?”  “Where’s  Charlie  Cocke  and  Frank 
Shoup  ;  why  isn’t  Billy  Nichol  here  ;  do  you  remember 
that  Quartette? ”  “Dear  old  Ned  Nelson,  I’ve  never 
heard  of  him  since.”  “Do  you  remember  Shields 
and  his  guitar,  and  old  Van  Hoose  as  Proctor?”  or, 
4  ‘It  will  be  hard  to  find  another  Overton  Lea.”  “Think 
of  Kimbrough  cutoff,”  or,  “We’ll  never  have  another 
Glee  Club  such  as  we  had  when  Wiggins  sang  bass,” 
or,  “Joe  Lovell  was  a  little  chap  then,”  or,  “I  was  a 
Hardee,  never  was  such  a  team!”  “Couldn’t  touch 
the  Sewanee’s!”  “And  the  men  who  wrote  were  to 
us  all  Thackerays,  and  Dickens,  and  Poes;  in  our 
eyes  no  one  could  touch  them  —  Fearnley,  and 
Guthrie,  and  Cocke,  and  Ewing  and  Shoup,  and  the 
Tuckers,  and  poor  Armstrong ;  and  they  could  write  !  ’  ’ 
“And  how  things  have  changed;  how  fine  everything 
is  for  these  young  fellows;  they  live  too  well.”  And 
from  each  class  the  eternal  cry — “There  were  never 
any  days  like  our  days — there  were  never  any  fellows 
like  the  fellows  I  knew.” 

So  were  struck  all  the  chords  of  love  and  memory, 
ringing  clear  and  true  in  resolves  for  building  still 
more  grandly  in  the  future  on  the  deep  and  noble 
foundations  of  the  past.  “That  which  is  done,”  they 
cried  “is  but  the  earnest  of  the  things  that  we  shall 
do!”  And  so  “God  speed  them!”  cries  their  Alma 
Mater,  “God  bless  them  every  one!” 


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(The  first  bui.ding  erected  on  the  University^  Domain) 


NOTES 


KNIGHT. — The  Rev.  F.  L.  Knight,  D.D.,  of  New  Jersey, 
came  in  January,  1867,  by  invitation  of  Bishop  Quintard  to  take 
charge  of  the  Sewanee  Divinity  School,  a  few  theologues 
having  been  gathered  at  Sewanee.  He  built  a  residence  at 
Sewanee  and  was  actively  engaged  in  teaching  and  in  mis¬ 
sionary  work  in  the  neighborhood  for  several  years. 

MORRIS. — The  Rev.  Thomas  A.  Morris,  now  living  in  Sky- 
land,  N.  C.,  was  present  at  the  memorable  service  held  by  Bis¬ 
hop  Quintard  in  1866,  when  he  erected  the  cross  at  Sewanee 
and  reclaimed  the  domain  and  rededicated  it  to  the  cause  of 
Christian  education. 

SHOUP. —  The  Rev.  Francis  A.  Shoup,  D.D.  (See  portrait, 
page  27). 

GORGAS. — Brigadier  General  Josiah  Gorgas,  Chief  of 
the  Ordnance  Department,  C.S.A.,  first  Headmaster  of  the  Se¬ 
wanee  Grammar  School,  was  Vice-Chancellor  of  the  University 
from  1871  to  1877,  succeeding  Bishop  Quintard  in  that  position. 

DABNEY. —  Robert  Dabney,  M.A.,  Professor  of  Meta¬ 
physics  and  English  Literature.  He  died  April  6th,  1876,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Sewanee  Cemetery. 

ELLIOTT.— John  B.  Elliott,  M.D.,  Ph.D.,  son  of  the  first 
Bishop  of  Georgia  and  brother  of  the  first  Bishop  of  Western 
Texas,  was  Professor  of  Chemistry,  Geology  and  Mineralogy, 
and  Health  Officer,  from  1870  to  1885. 

SEVIER. —  Colonel  T.  F.  Sevier  of  the  First  Tennessee 
Regiment,  C.S.A.,  of  which  Bishop  Quintard  was  Chaplain,  was 
one  of  the  Masters  of  the  Grammar  School  and  Commandant 
of  Cadets,  and  “  Mountain  Proctor”  from  1869  to  1877. 

HARRISON. —  Caskie  Harrison,  Ph.D.,  was  Professor  of 
Ancient  Languages  and  Literature  from  1870  to  1882.  He  died 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1904. 

DuBOSE.— The  Rev.  W.  P.  DuBose.  M.A.,  S.TD.,  D.C.L. 
(See  portrait,  page  28). 

McCRADY. — John  McCrady,  was  appointed  Professor  of 
Biology  and  the  Relation  of  Science  to  Religion  in  1877 
and  held  that  chair  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1882. 


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JUNY. —  The  Rev.  F.  A.  Juny,  S.T.D.,  was  Professor  of 
Modern  Languages  from  1870  to  1879. 

KIRBY-SMITH. —  General  Edmund  Kirby-Smith  (See  por¬ 
trait,  page  29). 

HODGSON. —  The  Rev.  Telfair  Hodgson,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
(See  portrait,  page  26). 

WILMER. — The  Rev.  George  T.  Wilmer,  D.D.,  held  chairs 
in  the  Academic  and  in  the  Theological  Department,  from  1875 
to  1887. 

ROGERS. — Lieutenant  R.  M.  Rogers,  Second  U.  S.  Artil¬ 
lery,  was  detailed  by  the  War  Department  as  Instructor  in 
Military  Science  in  1880,  and  made  the  military  feature  of  the 
University  more  important  than  it  had  previously  been. 

PAGE. — Frederick  M.  Page,  was  Professor  of  Modern  Lan¬ 
guages  from  1876  to  1891. 

GAILOR. — The  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Gailor,  S.T.D.  (See 
portrait,  page  25). 

WIGGINS. — Benjamin  Lawton  Wiggins,  M.A-,  LL.D.,  now 
Vice-Chancellor,  matriculated  in  the  University  July  30,  1877, 
and  took  his  M.A.  degree  in  1882.  He  was  on  the  teaching  staff 
of  the  University  from  a  very  early  date  and  did  not  retire  from 
the  chair  of  Greek  Language  and  Literature  until  1907. 

TRENT. — William  Pqterfield  Trent,  M.A. ,  D.C.L.  (See  por¬ 
trait,  page  30). 

WHITE. —  The  Rev.  Prof.  Greenough  White,  M. A.,  whose 
lectures  on  Literature  and  Art  were  features  of  the  University 
life  for  many  years,  and  who  wrote  at  Sewanee  his  Biog¬ 
raphies  of  Bishop  Cobbs,  and  Bishop  Kemper. 

WELLS. — Benjamin  W.  Wells,  Ph.D.  (See  portrait,  page  — 

BECKWITH.— The  Rt.  Rev,  Charles  M.  Beckwith-  D.D., 
Bishop  of  Alabama,  was  for  a  long  time  Master  in  the  Sewanee 
Grammar  School.  k xn. 

SESSUMS. —  The  Rt.  Rev.  Davis  Sessums,  D.D.  (See  por¬ 
trait,  page  32). 

NAUTS. —  Professor  William  Boone  Nauts,  matriculated  in 
1878  and  took  his  M,H.  degree  in  the  same  class  with  Puckette 
and  Wiggins  in  1882.  His  career  as  teacher  extends  to  the 
present  time. 


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HALL. — William  Bonnel  Hall,  M.D.,  matriculated  in  1881  and 
took  his  B.S.,  C.E.,  and  M.A.,  in  1885.  He  rceived  his  M.D. 
elsewhere,  but  came  back  to  the  University  in  1893  and  has 
held  chairs  in  the  Academic  and  Medical  Departments,  and 
was  Dean  of  the  Academic  Department  in  1906  and  1907. 

MacKELLAR. — William  Howard  MacKellar,  matriculated 
in  1883,  and  took  his  M.D.  degree  in  1891.  His  career  as  a  teacher 
began  early  and  he  was  one  time  Headmaster  of  the  Grammar 
School.. 

BAIN. —  Charles  Wesley  Bain,  matriculated  in  1892  and  took 
his  M.A.  in  1899.  He  was  also  sometime  Headmaster  of  the 
Grammar  School  and  is  now  Professor  of  Latin  in  the  Uni¬ 
versity  of  South  Carolina. 

SEIBELS. — Henry  Goldth waite  Seibels,  matriculated  in  1895 
and  took  his  B.A.  in  1899.  He  was  Headmaster  of  the  Gram¬ 
mar  School  from  1901  to  1903. 

JERVEY. — Huger  Wilkinson  Jervey,  matriculated  in  1896 
and  took  his  M.A.  in  1899.  He  is  now  Professor  of  Greek  in 
the  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

WILLIAMS. — Hon.  John  Sharpe  Williams  (See  portrait, 
page  36). 

MYLES. —  Robert  Myles  matriculated  February  28,  1870. 
Was  associated  with  Sir  Morel  Mackenzie  when  the  latter 
attended  the  Emperor  Frederick,  of  Germany.  Now  a  promi¬ 
nent  physician  in  New  York  City. 

MANNING. — The  Rev.  William  Thomas  Manning,  D.D. 
(See  portrait,  page  34). 

WELLER.— The  Rt.  Rev.  Reginald  H.  Weller,  D.D.,  now 
Bishop  Coadjutor  of  Fond  du  Lac,  matriculated  at  Sewanee  in 
March,  1875. 

BRATTON.— The  Rt.  Rev.  Theodore  DuBose  Bratton, 
D.D.,  third  Bishop  of  Mississippi,  matriculated  in  the  Gram¬ 
mar  School  in  1874.  Went  up  to  the  University  and  on  to  the 
Theological  (Department  and  took  his  G.D.  in  1887,  and  B.D.  in 
1890. 

BAXTER. —  George  W.  Baxter  matriculated  in  1871,  and 
was  sometime  Territorial  Governor  of  Wyoming. 

BUTT. — Capt.  Archibald  Willingham  de  Graffenreid  Butt. 
(See  portrait,  page  40). 


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THE  BULLETIN 


DeROSSET. — The  Very  Rev.  and  Ven.  Frederick  A.  De- 
Rosset,  matriculated  in  1872,  and  received  his  M.A.  in  1878  in 
the  same  class  with  Bishop  Sessums.  He  was  the  first  M.A. 
graduate  of  the  University.  Is  now  dean  of  the  Pro-Cathe¬ 
dral  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  and  an  Archdeacon. 

McBEE. — Silas  McBee  matriculated  in  1874,  and  is  now 
Editor-in-Chief  of  The  Churchman. 

ELLIOTT. — John  B.  Elliott,  Jr.,  matriculated  in  the  Gram¬ 
mar  School  in  1880;  went  up  to  the  University  and  took  his 
M.A.  degree  in  1891.  Is  now  a  prominent  physician  in  New 
Orleans. 

BALL. — Isaac  Ball,  Jr.,  matriculated  in  the  Grammar  School 
in  1884;  went  up  to  the  University  and  took  his  M.A.  degree 
in  1891.  Is  now  Classical  Master  in  the  Sewanee  Military 
Academy. 

COCKE. —  Charles  Pollard  Cocke,  matriculated  in  1878.  Was 
-a  member  of  a  prominent  firm  of  lawyers  in  New  Orleans. 
He  was  in  attendance  upon  the  Summer  School  in  1908.  The 
mews  of  his  death  in  August  was  a  great  shock  to  all  his  friends. 

SHOUP. — Francis  E.  Shoup  matriculated  in  the  Grammar 
^School  in  1883. 

NICHOL. — William  Lytle  Nichol  matriculated  in  1889. 

NELSON. — Edward  Bridge  Nelson  matriculated  in  1889  and 
took  his  M.A.  degree  in  1893. 

SHIELDS. — The  Rev.  Van  Winder  Shields,  D.D.,  matricu¬ 
lated  March,  1874. 

VAN  HOOSE. — The  Rev.  James  A.  Van  Hoose  matriculated 
August,  1871,  and  took  his  B.Lit.  degree  in  1875.  Was  some¬ 
time  Proctor.  The  founder  of  the  Van  Hoose  Medal  for 
German. 

LEA. —  Overton  Lea  matriculated  in  1896  and  took  his  B.A. 
degree  1900.  Died  1905. 

LOVELL. — Joseph  Mansfield  Lovell  matriculated  in  the 
‘Grammar  School  in  1880;  went  up  to  the  University  and  took 
ihis  B.A.  degree  in  1890.  He  was  making  a  name  for  himself 
as  a  physician  in  New  Orleans,  when  he  succumbed  to  the 
jrellow  fever  in  1897. 


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KIMBROUGH. — Frank  Richmond  Kimbrough  matriculated 
in  the  Grammar  School  in  1894  and  went  up  to  the  University. 
Was  giving  great  promise  as  an  artist  when  his  career  was  cut 
short  on  Christmas  day,  1903. 

BISHOPS. — The  Sewanee  men  who  have  become  Bishops 
are  the  following:  Sessums,  of  Louisiana;  Moreland,  of 
Sacramento;  Weller,  of  Fond  du  Lac;  Bratton,  of  Mississippi; 
Knight,  of  Cuba;  Guerry,  of  South  Carolina;  of  the  Students. 
Gailor,  of  Tennessee  and  Beckwith,  of  Alabama,  of  those  who 
were  otherwise  closely  identified  with  Sewanee.  Manning  was 
elected  Bishop  of  Harrisburg,  but  declined. 

FEARNLEY. — The  Rev.  John  Fearnley  matriculated  to  the 
Theological  Department  in  1889. 

GUTHRIE. — William  Norman  Guthrie,  M.A.  (See  portrait, 
page  39). 

EWING. — The  Rev.  Quincy  Ewing  matriculated  in  1885. 

THE  TUCKERS. — Edward  C.  Tucker  matriculated  in  1882; 
The  Rev.  Louis  Tucker  matriculated  in  1887;  Prentiss  Tucker 
matriculated  in  1893;  Ernest  Edward  Tucker  matriculated  in 
1896:  The  Rev.  Gardiner  L.  Tucker  Matriculated  in  1893; 
The  Rev.  Royal  Kenneth  Tucker,  B. A.,  matriculated  in  1900. 
They  were  all  writers;  and  to  the  Rev.  Gardiner  L.  Tucker 
we  owe  the  quatrain  which  every  Sewanee  man  knows: 

A  towered  city  set  within  a  wood 

Far  from  the  world  upon  a  mountain  crest : 

There  storms  of  life  burst  not,  nor  cares  intrude; 

There  Learning  dwells,  and  Peace  is  Wisdom’s  guest. 

ARMSTRONG. — Joseph  Honesby  Armstrong  matriculated 
May  3,  1886,  left  the  University  in  1889,  and  died  in  January 
1891.  His  collected  poems,  edited  by  his  friend  William  Nor¬ 
man  Guthrie,  were  published  in  1892. 


SEWANEE  ILLUSTRATED 


THE  RT.  REV.  I.  U.  DUDLEY,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 
Second  Bishop  of  Kentucky,  and  sixth  Chancellor  of  the 
University,  Died  January,  1904. 


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THE  RT.  REV.  THOMAS  F.  GAILOR,  S.T.D. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Gailor,  S.T.D.,  third  Bishop  of 
Tennessee,  and  present  Chancellor  of  the  University,  was 
Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  in  the  Theological  Depart¬ 
ment  and  the  much-loved  Chaplain  of  the  University  from  1883 
to  1893.  From  1890  to  1893  he  was  Vice-Chancellor. 

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THE  REV.  TELFAIR  HODGSON,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

The  Rev.  Telfair  Hodgson,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Dean  of  the  The¬ 
ological  Department  from  1876  to  1893,  and  Vice-Chancellor 
from  1879  to  1890.  f  ». 


[26] 


THE  REV.  FRANCIS  A.  SHOUP,  U.D. 

The  Rev.  Francis  A.  Shoup,  D.D.,  formerly  Brigadier 
General  Shoup,  C.S.A.,  was  well  known  to  all  Sewanee  boys 
from  1870  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1897. 


[27] 


THE  REV.  W.  P.  DuBOSE,  M.A.,  S.T.D.,  D.C.L. 

The  Rev.  William  Porcher  DuBose,  M.A.,  S.T.D.,  D.C.L., 
began  his  residence  in  Sewanee  in  1870,  and  his  connection  with 
the  University  was  not  wholly  severed  by  his  resignation  of  the 
Deanship  of  the  Theological  Department  in  1908. 


[28] 


GENERAL  EDMUND  KIRBY-SMITH. 


General  Edmund  Kirby- Smith  came  to  Sewanee  in  1875  as 
Professor  of  Mathematics,  and  subsequently  of  Botany.  He 
resided  in  Sewanee  until  the  time  of  his  death  in  1893. 


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WILLIAM  PETERFIELD  TRENT,  M. A.,  U.C.L. 

William  Porterfield  Trent,  M.A.  D.C.L.,  now  of  Columbia 
University,  was  Professor  of  English  Language  and  Literature 
from  1888  to  1899,  and  was  Dean  of  the  Academic  Department 
for  the  latter  years  of  that  period.  He  was  the  founder  and 
first  editor  of  The  Sewanee  Review,  and  it  was  at  Sewanee  that 
he  made  his  earliest  notable  contributions  to  Southern  literature. 

[30] 


BENJAMIN  W.  WELLS,  Ph. IX 

Benjamin  W.  Wells,  Ph.D.,  was  Professor  of  Modern  Lan¬ 
guages  from  1891  to  1900. 


[3*  ] 


THE  RT.  REV.  DAVIS  SESSUMS,  D.D. 


The  Rt.  Rev.  Davis  Sessums,  D.D.,  matriculated  in  1874,  and 
took  his  degree  in  1882.  He  was  one  time  elected  to  the  chair 
of  Ancient  Languages  in  the  University  but  declined.  He 
taught  in  the  Grammar  School. 


[32] 


THE  RT.  REV.  W.  A.  GUERRY,  D.U. 


Eighth  Bishop  of  South  Carolina,  was  long  time  Chaplain  of 
the  University. 


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THE  REV.  WILLIAM  THOMAS  MANNING,  D.U. 

The  Rev.  William  Thomas  Manning,  D.D.,  “  The  Cardinal.” 
matriculated  in  1788;  received  his  B.D.  in  1894.  Succeeded  the 
late  Dr.  Morgan  Dix  as  Rector  of  old  Trinity,  New  York,  in 
1908.  The  incident  referred  to  by  Miss  Elliott,  was  when  Dr. 
Gailor  declined  the  Episcopate  of  Georgia  and  decided  to  stay 
at  Sewanee. 


[34] 


THE  REV.  HUDSON  STUCK,  D.D. 
Matriculated  in  1889.  Now  Archdeacon  of  Alaska. 


[35] 


HON.  JOHN  SHARPE  WILLIAMS. 

Formerly  Minority  Leader,  U.  S.  House  of  Representatives. 
Now  U.  S.  Senator  from  Mississippi.  Matriculated  June  9, 
1870. 


[  36  j 


EUGENE  H.  HINTON. 

Matriculated  August  3,  1870.  Now  President  Southeastern 
Freight  Association.  Alumnus  Trustee. 


[37] 


EDGAR  GARDNER  MURPHY. 

Matriculated  in  1885.  Publicist  and  Author.  Sometime 
Executive  Secretary  of  the  Southern  Educational  Board. 


[38] 


WILLIAM  NORMAN  GUTHRIE. 

William  Norman  Guthrie  matriculated  in  1889  and  took  his 
M.A.  degree  in  1891.  He  is  now  Professor  of  General  Litera¬ 
ture  in  University  Extension  in  the  University  of  the  South. 


[39] 


CAPT.  A.  W.  de  G.  BUTT,  U.  S.  A. 

Archibald  Willingham  de  Graffenried  Butt,  matriculated  in 
1882.  He  was  some  time  a  journalist  and  author  in  Washington. 
Entered  the  army  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish  War  and 
served  in  the  Quartermaster’s  Department  with  the  rank  of 
Captain.  Was  recently  appointed  Aide  to  the  President  and 
assigned  to  duty  at  the  White  House. 

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CAPT.  B.  F.  CHEATHAM,  U.  S.  A. 
Matriculated  in  1883. 


[41] 


MAJOR  CYRUS  S.  RADFORD,  U.  S.  A. 
Matriculated  in  1883.  Now  of  U.  S.  A.  Marinee  Corps. 


[42] 


Library  Building  from  Manigault  Park 


Library  Building  and  Walsh  Memorial  Hall 


Breslin  Tower.  Westminster  Chimes 


Quintard  Memorial  Hall 


Walk  in  Manigault  Park 


St.  Luke’s  Hall 


Breslin  Tower  from  Manigault  Park 


Hoffman  Hall 


Library  Building  and  Breslin  Tower 


Hodgson  Memorial  Infirmary 


University^Supply  Store 


The  Sewanee  Inn 


BHfl 


St.  Luke’s  Memorial 


Residence  of  Rev.  A.  R.  Gray,  Chaplain 


Residence  of  Miss  Sarah  Barnwell  Elliott 


Kirby-Smith  Point.  (Dedicated  August  1908) 


Morgan’s  Steep 


Jump  Off 


Cloud  Effects  at  Sevvanee 


Sewanee  Azalea 


